A tour of the admin panel

The admin panel is where you run your marketplace: listings, members, payments, pages, design and settings. It lives at /oc-panel on your site’s address (for example yourname.yclas.com/oc-panel), and opens when you sign in as an administrator.

This guide shows what’s where, so you can find any setting in a few seconds. The panel can also show you around itself: see The guided tour.

The guided tour

The first time you open the dashboard of a new site (in its first 45 days, once you’re past Set up your site), a one-minute tour offers to show you around. Click Show me around to start it, or Maybe later. Each step lights up one part of the panel: your setup guide, the AI page builder, the sections of the sidebar, the search box, Visit Your Website, support and your account menu. Use Next and Back to move through it, or Skip tour to stop.

On plans that include the AI page builder, its step has a button to open it, the free trial included. On older plans without the builder, the step has See plans instead.

To take the tour again at any time, open your account menu (your picture, top right) and click Take the tour, or type tour in the search palette.

Tips on your first visit

The first time you open a few key pages (All listings, Categories, Make money, Theme Options, Pages and Settings › General), a short tip explains what the page is for. Click Got it to close it, or No more tips to stop them all.

The tour and the tips start by themselves for administrators during a site’s first 45 days. On an older site, the tips appear once you’ve taken the tour. Whether you’ve seen them is remembered in your browser, so they may show again on another computer or after you clear your browser data.

The layout

The panel has three parts:

• The sidebar, the dark column on the left, with every section of the panel. On a phone it’s hidden behind the menu button in the top-left corner.
• The top bar, with the name of the page you’re on, your site’s status, Visit Your Website and your account menu.
• The page itself, in the middle.

At the top of the sidebar is a card with your site’s name and address. Clicking it opens My sites in your Yclas account, where you manage your plan and domain. Below it is the search box (Search or jump to…).

The sidebar

The links are grouped under AI, Manage, Content and Configure, after Home, Analytics and Support at the top (with Set up your site below Home on a new site). Some links only appear once you switch the feature on, and moderators only see the sections their role allows.

Link	What you do there
Home	Your dashboard: setup guide, key numbers, activity and recent listings.
Set up your site	The guided setup for a new site, with how many launch steps are done (for example 3/6). See Set up your site.
Analytics	Listing views, contacts, new listings, new users, paid orders and sales over time. See Analytics.
Support ↗	Opens your support tickets on yclas.com. The chat bubble in the bottom corner reaches our team too. See Get help from Yclas support.
AI page builder, AI features	The AI tools for your site, with how many are on. See AI page builder and AI features and allowances.
Listings	All listings, Moderation (when moderation is on, with a count of listings waiting), Claims and Leads (on a directory site), Categories, Locations, Custom Fields, Job applications (with the jobs pack) and listing Settings.
Users	Your members, their roles and status. See Manage users.
Referrals	Switch on invite links and rewards for members who bring friends, and follow each referral. See Referrals.
Recruit sellers	Your list of people and businesses to invite as sellers, the message you send them and who joined. See Recruit sellers.
Subscribers	People subscribed to your emails and newsletter.
Subscriptions	Members’ paid memberships (only when membership plans are on).
Orders	Everything members have paid for. See Orders and transactions.
Deposit claims	Sellers’ claims on a booking’s security deposit, for you to decide (only when security deposits are on).
Make money	A guided setup for charging your sellers: boosts, featured listings, pay to post and seller plans, and how you get paid. See Make money.
Banners	Banners advertisers bought, to approve, and the live ones (only when selling banners is on).
Transaction	eWallet movements (only when the eWallet is on).
Reviews, Forum	Shown when reviews or the forum are switched on.
Reviews to check	Reviews held as suspicious (only when fake-review protection is on).
Business, Reports	Shown when business seller accounts or listing reports are switched on.
Account types	Your own account types and their settings (administrators only, when your own account types are on).
Pages	About, Terms, Privacy and your other pages. See Pages.
Blog, FAQ	Shown when the blog or FAQ is on.
Settings	General, Payments, SEO, Coupons, Translations and User Custom Fields.
Media	Photo sizes, watermark and image settings.
Email	How your site sends email, and the email templates.
Design	Themes, Theme Options, Widgets, Menu and Custom code.
Add-ons	One searchable list of the optional features you can switch on and the services you can connect, such as payment providers, Google and social networks. See Add-ons and Integrations.
Tools	Move your site to Yclas, Export everything, sitemap, cache and scheduled jobs. See The Tools page.
Domain & SSL ↗	Opens the page in your Yclas account where you connect your own domain. See Connect your own domain.

Links marked ↗ open yclas.com in a new tab.

Pages for features that are off

Some pages belong to a feature you switch on somewhere else, such as Claims, Job applications or the Auctions settings. If you open one while its feature is off, for example from a bookmark, the panel takes you to the switch with a note saying what to turn on. See General settings for the full list.

The top bar

From left to right:

• The page title, after your site’s name. On pages with a large heading of their own, it appears once you scroll down.
• Trial countdown — during the free trial, a pill such as 9 days left · Choose a plan (on a phone; on a larger screen the countdown sits at the bottom of the sidebar).
• Search the guides — searches this Help Centre without leaving the panel.
• Site live or Maintenance mode — whether visitors can see your site. See Maintenance mode.
• Visit Your Website — opens your site in a new tab.
• Your picture — opens the account menu: Edit profile, Support, Documentation, Take the tour, Appearance (Light, Dark or Auto, which follows your device), Manage Websites (your sites on yclas.com) and Logout.

The home dashboard

Home gives you a picture of your marketplace at a glance.

The setup guide

For the first 45 days of a new site, the top of the dashboard shows a setup guide: a ring with how ready your site is, and the launch steps from Set up your site, ticked as you do them. The first step is Choose how your site works; the others follow your answers, for example Create your categories, Add your logo, Post your first 5 listings (the counter shows how many you have; example listings created at sign-up don’t count) and Share your site with your first members.

The main button opens the next step, and Continue setup opens the guided setup. A step your plan doesn’t include shows a lock, and its button takes you to the plans. Once every step is done, the guide goes away and Share your site sits at the top of the dashboard. To hide the guide earlier, click the × in its corner (Hide the setup guide); it stays hidden in that browser.

If your site doesn’t have the guided setup, the guide shows three steps instead: Create your categories, Add your logo and Post your first 5 listings, with Import from CSV, Share your site and Recruit sellers next to the listing step.

Set up your site

Set up your site walks you through your launch one card at a time. It’s on for every site during its first 45 days, and the first time you open the admin panel it opens by itself. After that, open it from Set up your site in the sidebar or Continue setup on the dashboard.

1. Two questions. What do people list on your site?: Things people sell or rent (classifieds), Businesses and professionals (a directory) or Both. Then How does a deal happen?: They contact the seller, They pay on your site (Marketplace plan), They book a time (Professional plan and up) or, on a site with businesses, They ask for a quote. Your answers set up the site to match, and you can change them any time.
2. Your plan. A list of the launch steps for your kind of site, with about how many minutes each takes and the ones already done. Click Let’s go.
3. One card per step. Many steps are done right in the card: tap suggested categories or type your own, upload your logo (and use its colour for your buttons and links if you like), switch on business accounts, bookings or quote requests, or copy your link and share it on WhatsApp, Facebook or by email. The listings card offers the quickest ways to add your first ones, such as posting one yourself, from a photo, importing businesses from Google, pasting a list or uploading a spreadsheet. More options opens the full page for that step.
4. Skip for now moves on and leaves the step for later. When a card sends you to another page, a Back to setup button stays in the corner: click it when you’re done, and the step is ticked.
5. The finish card. Your site is ready to launch, or how many steps are left for later, with add-ons that suit your kind of site (reviews, listings from a photo, payments, bookings…). From there, Visit your site, Go to your dashboard or Go through the steps left.

Depending on your answers, the steps can include connecting Stripe and turning on the cart (they pay on your site), turning on bookings, letting businesses sign up as a business, or sending quote requests to businesses. Steps your plan doesn’t include stay in the list, marked with the plan they need.

Save and exit (top right) takes you back to the dashboard; your answers and finished steps are kept. All steps shows the whole setup on one page, in three parts: How your site works, Before you launch and When you’re ready to grow.

Start earning

Until your site charges for anything, the dashboard also shows a Start earning from your marketplace card. Its Make money button opens the guided setup; see Make money. The card goes away once you charge for something, or once you tell the setup you don’t want to charge yet.

Key numbers

Four cards compare the selected period with the one before:

Card	What it counts
Listing views	Views of your listings, with the number of contacts to sellers underneath. If view counting is switched off, this card shows Paid orders instead.
New users	Members who signed up and are active.
New listings	Listings published, and how many are waiting for review.
Revenue	What members paid you (featured listings, memberships, posting fees…), and the number of paid orders.

Choose 7 days, 30 days or 90 days at the top right. Click a card to open the page behind it.

Below the cards you’ll find a chart of the main number, an Activity feed (new listings, sign-ups and payments) and your Recent listings.

Needs your attention

When something is waiting for your team, such as listings to review, reports, claims, banners to approve or security deposit claims to decide, the dashboard shows a Needs your attention card with a count for each and a link to the page that deals with it. See Needs your attention for every line.

Search and jump anywhere (Ctrl K / ⌘ K)

Press Ctrl K (Windows, Linux) or ⌘ K (Mac), or click Search or jump to… in the sidebar, to open the command palette. Start typing and press Enter to go:

• Actions: Post a new listing, Visit Your Website, Edit profile and Read the guides.
• Go to: every page in the sidebar, including sub-pages such as Listings › Categories or Settings › Payments.

The search is forgiving: typing a few letters in order is enough, so lcat finds Listings › Categories. Use the arrow keys to move through the results and Esc to close.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcuts work anywhere in the panel, except while you’re typing in a field.

Keys	What they do
Ctrl K / ⌘ K	Open or close the search palette.
Esc	Close the palette or the mobile menu.
G then H	Go to Home.
G then L	Go to All listings.
G then U	Go to Users.
G then O	Go to Orders.
G then S	Go to Settings › General.
G then P	Go to Pages.
N	Post a new listing (on the Home page).
Ctrl S / ⌘ S	Save a settings page that has unsaved changes.

Press G, let go, then press the second key within a second or so.

Inside a text editor, Ctrl K keeps its usual job of inserting a link, so the palette won’t open from there.

Saving settings

On settings pages, a bar appears at the bottom as soon as you change something: Unsaved changes, with Discard and Save changes. If you try to leave the page before saving, your browser asks you to confirm.

The admin panel and the member area

Your marketplace has two back offices:

• The admin panel (this guide) is for you and your team: administrators, moderators and translators.
• The member area is what every member, including you, uses for their own things: My Listings, My Favorites, Messages, payments and their profile. It uses your site’s design rather than the admin look. See Your profile.

When a member who isn’t on your team opens /oc-panel, they’re taken to their own My Listings page instead.

Related guides

• Launch checklist — what to set up before you invite members.
• Analytics — the numbers in more detail.
• Roles and permissions — what moderators and other roles can see.
• Your profile — your own account on your site.